Straight Songs Of Sorrow - Mark Lanegan - Vinyl LP Record (Arrives in 50 days)

‘Straight Songs Of Sorrow’ combines musical trace elements from
early Mark Lanegan albums with the synthesized constructs of later
work. The meditative acoustic guitar fingerpicking – provided by
Lamb Of God’s Mark Morton – on ‘Apples From A Tree’ and ‘Hanging
On (For DRC)’ echo 1994’s ‘Whiskey For The Holy Ghost’. Yet one of
that record’s touchstones was Van Morrison’s ‘Astral Weeks’, echoed
in the new album’s opener ‘I Wouldn’t Want To Say’, where Lanegan
extemporises à la Ballerina over musique concrète wave patterns
generated by his latest favourite compositional tool, a miniature
computer-synth called the Organelle. The lyric clings onto the music,
emulating queasy momentum: “Swinging from death… to revival.”
“That song is the explanation, the beginning and middle and end of
that entire period of time,” Mark says. “The encapsulation of the
entire experience, book and record. So I started with that.”
Lanegan affirms that every song references a specific episode or
person in his autobiography, albeit some more explicitly than others.
‘Hanging On (For DRC)’ is a loving ode to his friend Dylan Carlson,
genius progenitor of drone metal and a fellow unlikely survivor of
Seattle’s narcotic dramas. “I was always unhappy, and he was the guy
who was always smiling, even through my crazy schemes that
eventually got both of us into a lot of trouble.”
‘Straight Songs Of Sorrow’ feels both definitive and unique, a
culmination of its creator’s arc yet also indicative of the energy that
drives him onto future horizons.

Tracklist

Disc 1

1. I Wouldn't Want To Say
2. Apples From a Tree
3. This Game of Love
4. Ketamine
5. Bleed All Over
6. Churchbells, Ghosts
7. Internal Hourglass Discussion
8. Stockholm City Blues
9. Skeleton Key
10. Daylight In the Nocturnal House
11. Ballad of the Dying Rover
12. Hanging On (For Drc)
13. At Zero Below
14. Eden Lost and Found

Disc 2

1. Skeleton Key
2. Daylight In the Nocturnal House
3. Ballad of a Dying Rover
4. Hanging On (For Drc)
5. Burying Ground
6. At Zero Below
7. Eden Lost and Found

Label: Heavenly | Origin: Holland

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